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Benedict Makes a Beautiful Commentary on the Briefest Yet Most Comprehensive Biography Ever Written—Retain God’s Love. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Rev. Charles E. Benedict, pastor of St. James’ M. EK. Church, Eighty-fourth street and Tswen- tieth avenue, Bensonhurst. preached Sun- day morning on “Divine Companionship.” The texts were from (ienesis v:24: “Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him,” and Hebrews xi:5: “Before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Mr. Benedict said: his is one of the briefest yet most com- prehensive biographies ever written. These - Passages, containing twenty-three words, tell us about all we know concerning this man Enoch. Tmagine the story of your Jife told in thice sentences! He walked _ with God, he pleased God and he was ‘ translated. This is the record of Enoch’s life. It reads more like an epitaph than a biography, yet I would rather have those first two statements true of my life than to have the most eloquent tributes or eulo- gistic praises ever written or spoken by men. To walk with God and to please Him! Do you know of anything more de- sirable? ! It is said that a man’s walk is indicative of his career. Manner and gesture are an index to character. It is possible to make an estimate approximately correct of the type of men you meet on the street by not- ing the poise and bearing of ths average pedestrian. One walks with a firm, quick step, head erect, shoulders back, and you feel instinctively that he is an energetic, resolute, seli-respecting man, bound to suc- ceed. Another shambles by with shiftless gait, dragging his feet rather than lifting them, and you put him down for a loafer. 'A third glides along noiselessly, threadin his way in and out among the crowd, pi vou know intuitively that he is a sly, scheming trickster. Another walks with unsteady gait, stepping carefully, as if the pavement were rolling and bumping against his feet, and as with pitying glance vou watch him stagger along you say, “The poor fellow is drunk.” So a man’s gait be- trays him. His walk signifies the manner of his life. One is likewise known by the company he keeps. We are largely what our friends and companions are. Tell me the sort of persons with whom you associate, in whom you confide, to whom you go with all your troubles and with whom you share your every joy. and I will have no difficulty in estimating your character. To retain pur- ity of character if one’s associates are base and ignoble is an impossibility. And it would seem equally impossible to live an impure, vicious, wicked life if all our asso- ciates are noble and virtuous. We are in- fluenced unconsciously by the words and actions of our friends. Like the chame- Jeon, we take on the hue of our surround- ings and reflect the likeness of our com- panions. The hunran heart under normal condi- tions craves companionship. From the be- ginning it was so. God saw that 1t was not good for man to be alone, so He gave him , a companion and helpmeet. We are so constituted that we must have some one «with whom to share our happy hours. some good, true friend who enters into our experiences with sympathetic appre- ciation, whose heart aches in our sorrow and rejoices in our joy. The strangest truth -contained in all God’s wonderful volume of truth is that e who created the universes, the Lord God Omnipotent, whose wisdom is omnis- cience, whose goodness is perfection, whose name is love, that He should condescend to become the companion and associate of man, His creature. I said that this is the st truth. Tet me take it back. one truth more astounding yet. Tis this—that man should refuse the friendship and disdain the companionship of Jehovah, his God. Of all the divine humiliations what could be geater than this, that He should seek the friendship of mortal man and find it not? That He should offer Himself for the closest and most intimate relationship, as a companion for life’s pilgrimage, a comrade for life’s struggles. an associate and confi- dant amid all life's changing scenes, and yet be rejected! The trouble is and has ever been when men have rejected God that they love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. From the opening chapters of human history until now it ‘has been true that man, the creature, has been out of harmony with God. the Crea- tor. It is refreshing, therefore, to find in the inspired record, amid the gencalogies of ancient nobodies who lived long, bore chil- dren, and eventually died, the story of one ‘holy life, a man who walked with God and who pleased God. From this fragmentary sketch of Enoch's life, reading between the lines and penetrating beneath the sur- face ‘of the words which contain his bio- graphy, we may discover some helpful truths concerning divine gompanionship. To walk with God implies, first of all, ' reconciliation with God. Man by nature is . mot on good terms with his Maker. Time was when the most loving intimacy and harmonious relationship existed between them. “Adam walked with God in the garden in the cool of the day.” Not be- fore Him as a herald, nor behind Him as a slave. but beside Him, as His companion, and I had almost said His equal. But something came between them. They had a falling out. As one has expressed it. “Sin came and opened the mighty chasm of separation, and since then the carnal mind has been enmity against God.” The Father’s heart has yearned for rec- onciliation, but how could reconciliation be made? The heart of man was wholly estranged. An impassable gulf yawned be- tween him and his Creator. He had sinned against Divine Majesty and for- feited the Divine favor. But The love of God is broader i Than the measure of man’s mind; + And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.” Therefore, “God, who is rich in merey, for His great love wherewith: He loved us, even when we were dead in sins.” deter- mined to bridge the chasm. to heal the breach and win back the affections alien- ated by sin. He sent Christ into the world And He, who is our peace. #“‘Hath made both one, and hath broken ‘down the middle wall of partition between *."aus, haying abolished in His flesh the enmi- ty,” and reconciled us unto God by His death on the cross. Acceptance of Jesus Christ is the basis of reconciliation with God. 'On no other terms can our estrangement be healed. The trouble began when men insisted upon turning every one to his own way. The difficulties are perfectly and satisfactorily adjusted when man is willing to turn back into God's way. And whenever one reaches the point of willingness to accept Jesus Christ, then hé begins to walk in newness of life, and walking thus he makes a dis- covery. He discovers that “Old things are passed away, and all things are become new.” Patrick Daley, of Boston, had the right idea of the new birth. Iie wa: a Catholic by profession, but a drunkard by practice. He attended an evangelistic service and for the first time in his life heard the gos- pel. He made a complete surrender to | Christ, and was delivered from the bond- | i A few weeks afterward he | age of drink. approached Dr. A. J. Gordon with a prob- Jem which bad perplexed him Said he = greatly. | “You see, your reverence, I know | hing when I get it, and when I | Ivation I couldn’t keep it to my- | self. Peter Murphy lived up stairs in the same tenement with me. > was a worse drunkard than I, if that could be, and we had gone on many a spree together, Well, when I got saved and washed clean in the blood of Jesus Christ, I was so happy I didn’t know ‘what to do with myself. So I went up to Murphy and told: him. what I had got. He was just getting over a spree and felt pretty sick and sore, and was ready to do anything I told him. So I got him to SE the pledge and told him Jesus alone could help him keep it. Then I got him on his knees and made him pray and surrender to the Lord as T had done. You never see such a change in a man as, there was in him for the next week. I kept watch of him and prayed for him and helped him on the best I could, and sure, he was a different man. Well. come Sun- day morning, Joe Healev called around to pay his usual visit. He used to come every Sunday and bring a bottle of whisky with him, and them two would spree it al! day until they turned the whole house into a bedlam. Well, I saw Healey coming last Sunday morning, and I was afraid it would be all up with poor Murphy if he got with him. I went down to the door, and when he asked if Murphy was in I said, ‘No, Murphy is out. e don’t live here any longer.” So I sent Healey off and saved Murphy from temptation. But what I want to know, vour reverence, is this, did I tell a lie? I meant that the old Murphy did not live there any more. ou know Mr. Moody told us that when a man is converted he is a new creature: old things have passed away. I believe Murphy is a new creature, and that the old Murphy does not live any more in that attic.” “If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away; be- hold all things are become new.” After a man makes this discovery he begins to learn important truths. He learns that he must now walk, not after the flesh, but af- ter the spirit. This is by no means an easy thing to do. I wonder how many have mastered this art? ’Tis one that can- not be. acquired in a single lesson. I sometimes think we shall never know per- fectly how to walk after the Spirit so long as we bear this body of flesh. There is much misapprehension on this point. Not a few have been sorely perplexed, and some have been quite disheartened in their attempts to make the plain facts of their experience fit certain doctrines taught from the Scriptures. Here is a typical ex- ample. A young man entered upon the Christian life. There was no doubt as to the. genuineness of his conversion. He ac- cepted Christ intelligently, and with an earnest purpose to give Him a loyal serv- ice. He had run the whole gamut of sin- ful indulgence, but the change in his life was a radical one. He ceased to do evil and tried to learn to do good. But he was hindered by old habits and tendencies which still lurked in his flesh. The strug- gle was fierce and he faced it heroically, until one day more severely tempted than usual he went to his pastor and said: “It’s no use, I might as well give up trying. I have been guilty of some of the same old sins that I used to indulge in, and I won't be a hypocrite. so vou can take my name off the record.” The pastor made use of his Master's method, and answered the young man with a parable. It was the ol story of a farmer who was plowing in a meadow. lot.. He kept his eyes fixed on a tree at the farther end of the field, and de- termined to make his’ first furrow as straight as possible. That was to be his guiding line, and it was his intention to make each furrow as straight as the first. He succeeded fairly well for awhile, until a bird flew close to his face and startled him so that he jerked on the rein with the result a crook in his furrow. Several times in the course of his plowing he got off the line, but just as soon as he discovered nis deflection he pulled back and got on the straight line again. How aptly this iilustrates the initial ex- perience of a child of God. He starts out with the determination to walk in the footsteps of his Master. That is the cen- tral purpose of his heart. His new nature throbs with a single motive of lovalty to Christ. But in his immature condition he blunders, he flies into a passion perhaps, or indulges some old sinful habit, forget- ting his new relationship with God, and he makes a crook in his furrow. But in the instant when he comes to himself he repents of his deflection and, fixing his eves upon Jesus, he gets back on the line and tries again. Such deviations from the line of rectitude often dishearten young Christians. Their blunders of immaturity are mistaken for tokens of insincerity. Walking with Christ in the school of expe- rience thev will learn that the evidence of their Jovalty to Him in whose footstens they seek to follow. is not found in the ab- solute perfection of their walk. The real test lies in their immediate repentance and turning back to the line when a de- viation or deflection has been discovered. A soul-inspiring truth that one ought to grasp at the beginning of the Christian life is that walking with God leads ultimately to God’s house. A beautiful commentary on this point was that made by. a little girl, as related by Dr. Morgan, of London. Her mother questioned: her about the ies- son learned at Sunday-school. She had been studying Enoch, and told her mother that he was a man who used to take long] walks with God. And one day they went for an extra long walk, and God said to Enoch, “You are a long way from home. Enoch. and you had better come in and stay with Me.” It has been truly said that: “Heaven is sometimes spoken of as a place, admission to which is gained by some lenient act of divine amnesty. People speak of going to heaven as though it were a concert room, to enter which a ticket only is required. Nothing could be more unscriptural. Heaven is not a place into which we are admitted. but a place into which we grow. It is little short of foolish the way some talk of going to heaven when they die. They exclude God from their life on earth. They find no love in His presence here. Heaven wonld be a place of painful! im- prisonment.”’ The felicities of the heavenly country will be conditioned largely upon our capac- itv to receive. And our capacity to re- ceive will be determined by our ability to serve. The service of heaven wiil be a ser- vice of love. I think we should stifie in the atmosphere of heaven’s love unless we had learned to breathe in its purity and live in its beauty here below. One must learn to keep step with Jehovah here and now if he would enter upon the joys of the divine presence hereafter. Learn to love what God loves. and hate what God hates. Get in step with Him to-day and let Him be your companion for life. i “They Shall See God.’’ A mighty twofold fact runs to and fro through all the earth and under the earth and over it high and far. Many do not see it or hear it and therefore do not feel it, but nevertheless there is no other thought so real, so vital and overwhelming known to science or history or revelation. This mighty fact is the immanence and the providence of Almighty God, in all things, through all things and for all things. He has created man and put Himself under universal and ceaseless obligations and re- sponsibilities to His creatures. To know this is an indescribable privil- ege, but to ignore it or treat it as a myth is the acme of idiocy or perversity. To see the divine presence and power in all things that we see, and to discern Him wherever we go and wherever we are, is to discern the revealed secret that “in Him we live and move and have our continued existence.” . : And so it shall come to pass that the King’s children shall all see “Books in the running brooks Sermons in stones And good (God) in everything. ~Chris ’ tian Century. "ARM ; % : a N FIELD yw GARDEN ant as ei —— ETT The Farm Machinery Problem. One of the most profitable invest- ments the farmer can make is in the needed machinery to properly operate the work of the farm. The best machines are always the cheapest, ev- en if the prices demanded are the highest.” The farmer should be a skill- ed operator of farm implements and farm machines. An ignorant, awk- ward operator of a machine may soon destroy its usefulness. It is not ev- ery one who drives a mower or a binder that can handle it skillfully and save it in wear and breakage. There is just as much need on the farm for mechanical ability and skill as in most other occupations. If the farmer boy could have a few months’ training in the use of tools, in building and repairing, in the ad- justing of machines ‘and implements used on the farm, he would be better equipped for his occupation and bet- ter qualified to save money on the farm. It is the lack of knowledge in handling and properly caring for the farm machinery that is responsible for the farm machinery that is re- sponsible for 75 percent of the failures on the farm. It is possible for the man of little judgment and no busi- ness management to lose $500 per vear in farm machinery by letting it rust out and the attendant loss by breakage, etc., that naturally goes with such carelessness. Depth of Planting Bulbs. Bulbs have a great faculty of ad- justing themselves to the conditions in which they find themselves—hence their popularity. But all the same they give the best returns when given the best opportunities to work in peace and comfort. In this respect they are almost human. One thing that makes the bulb so easy to han- dle is that it is, so to speak, fully grown before the gardener gets it, and the sole object he has is to put out the voung flower, and generally to sac- rifice the bulb itself. In practice it is better to get new stock each year, rushing the bulb for all it is worth and throwing it out as soon as the flower is done. Tulips adapt them- selves to almost any reasonable depth of planting, and flourish above ground just as well, whether deep or shallow. Hyacinths do not, however, and, planted too deeply, will develop small, stunted leaves. The reason for this need not be discussed now, however. The crocus is easy, too, but has a ten- dency to work up nearer to the sur- face in succeeding years, owing to its method of reproduction, and at last it reverses the process and sends out “droppers,” which descend and make the new bulb well below the surface. Scillas do the same thing after a time, very much to the sur- prise of the amateur, who misses their presence for a season. Generally a good rule is to plant as deeply below the surface as the bulb itself is deep. But that is not an absolute rule.— American Gardening. The Farmer Boy. No boy need ever regret that he was born in the country and reared on a farm. He may lack the keenness and polish of his city cousin. He may be embarrassed by his own awkwardness, and feel that he is at a hopeless dis- advantage in the race, but the country boy has a wider range of practical ideas. From the very first his little services are in demand. He becomes at once a part of tae force that is | making for home comfort and pros- perity, and feels the independence of one who is helping to support himself and add to the general store. The farm boy is likely to regard his life as one of drudgery, and such it may be, if he loses interest in his sur- roundings or is pressed with’ a con- tinual round of duty. There is some- thing heroic in the country ' boy’s struggle with the elements. Rain, snow and sleet only brace his courage. The garnering of the crops, the housing and feeding of the domestic animals, the gathering and preparation of the winter fuel give a purpose and zest to his toil. Then there are long tramps, sometimes of miles, to the district school, lesscns learned before and after long heurs of labor. Is it any wonder there are keen wits de- veloping all outside of graded systems and in defiance of pedagogical order? It is the intensity of purpose with which the mind acts under the influ- ence of vigorous health and the con- scious value of time that accounts for these results. So from the farm is being supplied a stream of active world-movers, who furnish the indus- trial world with its brawn and mus- cle.—National Fruit Grower. - A Corn Pest. The corn-root worm is one of the worst pests.with which the farmers of the central west and south have to deal. The beetle lays its eggs in early fall within a few inches of the stalk, from one to five inches deep the soil. The larvae hatch from June to August, and at first eat the small rootlets entire, and then com- mence burrowing under the outer lay- ers of the large roots. If on a rich loam, this causes the stalks to be easily blown over or to produce small ears ,and a general dwarfing of the plant if on poor land. Tae adult worm is nearly white; with brown head, a little less than half an inch long, by less than one-tenth of an inch in diamater. Three pairs of short legs are found on the segements im- mediately back of the head, but other- wise the long, cylindrical body ap- ly the | | better, than those bred under entire-| to the naked | micro- | scope, to have numerous hairs and bristles. Before pupation the color be- comes slightly darker and the bedy shortens, becoming more like a com- mon grub. They then leave the roots, for a small oval cell in the soil, transform to pupae, and in a short time come forth as adult beetles. The beetles are of a greenish yellow color and about one-fourth of an inch in length, resembling in form the com- mon striped squash bug. The adults are found in the fields from the latter part of July until the corn silks be- come dry, and often later, feeding up- on the silk and pollen, thus doing much damage, when compared with that of the worm. The remedy is so simple and. effective that it would seem that none ought to suffer from their injuries. As far as is known, they have never been injurious to corn after a previous crop of wheat, rye, or barley though the field may have been infected before that, and a crop of corn is safe for at least two years. Thus a simple rotation, which is also recommended on many other grounds, is entirely effectual.—R. B. Edgar, in The Epitomist. Great Value of Manure. Prof. Charles A. Thorne, director of the Ohio experiment station, says we have for five years conducted an ex- periment in the use of cow manure in thg production of corn, wheat and clover growth in rotation. The re- sult of this test is that in the five- year average we have produced an increase of about two bushels of corn, two-thirds of a bushel of wheat and about 60 pounds of clover hay for each ton of manure when the manure was taken from an ordinary open barn yard, the total ‘increase be- ing worth 1.50, if we value the corn at one-third of a dollar per bushel, clover at one-third of a dol- lar per 100 pounds, corn stover at $3 per ton and straw at $2. When, however, we leave this man- ure in the stable to be trampled under foot till ready for use the increase has been worth $2.50 per ton of man- ure, and when to this straw manure we have added, as made, about 40 pounds of phosphatic rock to each ton of manure, for the purpose not only of preventing the escape of ammonia, but of reinforcing the manure with phosphoric acid we have realized a total value of $3.25 per ton of manure, after paying for the phosphate used, the manure treated in this ‘manner producing an average increase of three bushels of corn, one and three- quarters bushels of wheat, and 125 pounds of hay for each ton of manure. We now have 43 steer calves, weighing 470 pounds each, which have been fed 40 days on a cémented floor, 7345 pounds of bedding being given during that time. During this period there has accumulated 20 tons of such manure as that used in the experiment above described or at the rate of a ton per animal in 100 days. The feed given these calves, costing 10 cents each per day, at the relatively high prices now prevailing. We are, there- fore, recovering about one-third of the cost of the feed in the potential value of the manure.—Mirror and Farmer. The Plant-Breeding Movement. One of the most marked features of the agricultural standpoint was the prominence given to plant-breeding exhibits, and the emphatic addresses of speakers at all the gatherings of farmers and breeders in urging the immediate importance of developing the process that are building an exact sclence on the foundation of the work of the older exverimenters. The members of the American Breeders’ association by co-operative effort dur- ing the fair, are doing a great and good work in exciting popular inter- est and spreading knowledge of the recent accomplishments in plant breeding. It is also evidenced that through the exact knowledge that can be gained in plant breeding, principles of animal breeding are be- ing more perfectly revealed. That de- finite characteristics can be fixed in plant types as in animal types is no longer questioned; how scon 10 or more percent can be added to the bil- lions of dollars’ worth of our annual farm production is the question of the hour. The ‘agricultural colleges and the experiment stations are doing | al they can with funds available to hasten the good movement. Let the farmers’ institutes and granges, and every rural organization, fall quickly in line and secure and spread all knowledge available, to the end that cach member of the community may be a co-worker in improvement of plant and animal life. In many state exhibits varieties of grains are shown -in profusion that will enable the student to learn where to start in his experimental work and study. In the Hlinois state exhibit special attention has been given to demonstrate thoroughly the great work being done in that state in corn- breeding improvement. Corn is shown that has been increased very largely in oil percentage, and one manufac- turing interests offers five cents per bushel extra for such high-oil corn; ancther, sample series is shown of low-oil corn, said to be superior when the hog is mainly fattened on corh. High protein corn is found to be eas- ily produced by the.careful farmer who will raise the protein constituent of his corn—its nutritive value, per- haps one-fifth. Experiments in wheat- breeding prove that the wheat yields can be increased by improving the home varieties several or many bush- eds per acre. and at the same time in- creasing the food value of the grain. The practice of sending to other states for seed is being in view of the fact that homebred ac- climated varieties of grain will thrive | ly different conditions.—Country Gentleman. Th the | discouraged | PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Pardoning another may cure our own pride. : A little sin may be the seed of a large sorrow. Painting the wagon puts no ginger in the horse. ; The first to shout for war <re the last to enlist. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Aeschy- lus. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propen- sities. . . : Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.— Shirley. He that wrestles with us strength- ens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery, into something that no mor- tal eye has yet seen, no intelligence declared.—E. H. Chapin. ANIMALS’ WANDERING. Rats the Most Migratory—Lemmings’ Race With Death. The fable of the country mouse and the town mouse has a foundation large numbers when food grows scarce and travel considerable distances to fresh houses. Farmers in a part of ertshire ha da good reason to become aware of this fact when, a couple of years ago, vast swarms of mice in- vaded their cornfields at harvest time. But the mouse only travels when it has to. The rat, on the contrary, seems to take a yearly outing. in very much the same fashion as do human beings. Rats are the most migratory creatures in the world. Whole troops of rats leave the towns at the end of summer and spend a month or two in the country, apparently in order to enjoy the change of food which the country affords at that time of the year in the way of fresh fruit and grain. Before the cold weather sets in they are all back in their old quar- ters. Reindeer migrate with the same re- gularity as swallows. They move south when winter sets in, but as soon as ever the snow begins to melt they travel steadily north, sometimes for as much as a thousand miles. At irregular intervals these rat- like creatures start out from their homes in the fastenesses of northern Scandinavia in huge droves, number- ing tens of thousands, and travel steadily southward. Death pursues them in a hundred forms. Hawks and other birds of prey hover about them. Foxes, wolves and man decimate them. Thousands are . drowned in rivers. Yet the rest struggle on until they reach the sea. They do not stop. They plung in, swim out and struggle on, until at last their strength fails and they drown. Not one ever re- turns form this journey of death.— London Answers. Coming and Going. Brother Silas Warner, a Methodist preacher of the old school, who en- joyed a joke next to a whack at the 10vil One, used to tell this story on himself. “I had just been graduated from the theological seminary and was be- ginning in the itinerancy when I was invited to preach the opening sermon at White Oak camp meeting. Like most philosophers of 21, I knew it all and a good deal more besides, and I stalked up the aisle that Sunday morning with my head in the air, re- solved to show those old fogies on the amen benches a thing or two in the way of preaching. : “But somehow, when I came to give out my text and saw all that sea of expectant faces before me, with Su- san Dillard and her father on the front bench too, my confidence began to ooze away. 1 repeated the text three or four times. I stuttered and stammered and blundered along help- lessly for some 15 or 20 minutes, and then in sheer desperation closed the Bible and beckoned old brother Jesse Mosely to come - and call up the mourners. . “After the service was over, and I was sneaking out at the back door, feeling like a sheep-stealing dog, a good old brother slipped out of the crowd, and laving his hand on my shoulder, said in a tone of gentle re- buke. ! “*‘My young friend, if you'd a-come in like vou went out, you'd a- went out like vou come in.’ ”—Sunday Magazine. "” os t Nothing Unusual About That. “What's the meaning of this word ‘trite’?” asked Archie. “I can’'tell you better by illustrating it,” said Reggie. “Suppose you hear a conversation of this kind: “‘How do you do, Miss Fly Beastly weather for the time of isn’t it? “ ‘It’s perfectly horrid. #7 don’t think I. ever weather. Did you? . ‘I never did. Never in my life.’ ry 2 ppe? saw worse “ ‘Coming around the corner ! ‘thought the wind would blow my hau off. Beastly wind, isn’t it? * It’s just horrid.’ like rain, ? ‘It looks too “ “The “weather man say to rain, doesn’t he? ‘1 think he does. don’t you, Miss Flyppe?’ * ‘1 detest it. It’s horrid. I hate rain; | | “Now do you get the idea?’ said Reggie. “No: blest If 1 dol” more mystified than “That” exactly the way I always talk when call on a young lady.”—Chicago Trib- ine. said Archie, before i ‘in fact. Mice occasionally migrate in A Influence of Sainte-Beuve. Sainte-Beuve is the foremost literary critic of the nineteenth century in the influence he has exerted upon his fel- lows. In a very real sense Matthew Arnold in England and Taine im France are his disciples—or at least he is their literary ancestor. They de- rive from him, and the doctrines they, have made explicit are often implicit in him. The part of Taine’s critical theory which has withstood the test of time is that which Taine acquired from Sainte-Beuve; and not a few of the points which Arnold pressed in- sistently on the attention of all who read English he took over from his French precedessor. There are no real critics of literature of our time, from Mr. James in America to M. Brunetiere in France, who have not come under Lis spell at some period of their own development, and who have not sharpened their own vision by a more or less deliberate applica- tion of the methods of Sainte-Beuve.— Century. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous= ness after first dav’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NerveRestorer, $2trial bottleand treatise free Dr.R.H, KruiNEe. Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. : Roof gardens are now common features in Southern California. A Guaranteed Cure For Piles. Ttching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Druggists will refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. A Formosa man must have a license be- fore he is allowed to smoke opium. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray. a nurse in Children’s Home, New York, break up colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Constivation, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destrow Worms. Atalldrnggists. 25¢. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen 8S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Vienna has the largest public bath im Europe. Mrz. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colie, 25¢.a bottle . The first United States mint was estah- lished in 1792. J do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump- tionhas anequal for coughs and colds. Jorn F.BoYgr, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1300. South Africa exports $26,000,000 worth of diamonds to London annually. A Good Move. The United States department of agricultural which has been rather active of late in its experiments with articles of food, willtake up the ques- tion of good coffee this winter and learn from experts the best methods of growing the berry and preparing it for the table. It is said some of the processes that produce Turkish cof- fee are secret, but there are various methods in vogue in other countries which will be disclosed to the pub- lc. : 80 Bu. Macaroni Wheat Per Acre, ' OY iniroduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. t is a tremendous cropper, yielding ma ood land in Wis., Ill., Ia., Mich., Ind., ., Pa., N. Y., 80 bu. per acre, and on dry, arid lands, such as are found in Mont. Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo., ete., it will god from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Speltz and Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass, makes it possible to grow and fatten hogs, sheep and cattle wherever soil is found. JUST SEND 10C AND THIS NOTICE to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you free a sampla of this Wheat and other farm seeds, to- gether with their great catalog, alona worth pa to any wide-awake farmer. - Thrones of Europe. There are 15 thrones in Europe, and eight now promise to pass from father to son. The latter are those of Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Norway and Sweden, Bul- garia, Russia and Italy. The Sultan may be succeeded by a brother and the King of Spain by a sister. The Emperor of Austria, the King of the Belgians and the King of Roumania look to nephews, while the ruler of Holland has no visible successor at present. DISFIGURING ULCER People Looked at Her in Amazement-s Pronounced Incurable—Face Now Clear as Ever—Thanks God For Cuticura. Mrs. P. Hackett, of 400 Van Buren St., Brooklyn, N. Y., says: “I wish to give thanks for the marvelous cure of my moth- er by Cuticura. She had a severe ulcer, which physicians had pronounced incur- able. It was a terrible disfigurement, and people would stand in amazement and look after her. After there was no hope from doctors she began using Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, and now, thank God, she is completely cured, and her face is as smooth and clear as ever.” His Simple Secret. A complaint was made that people had been travelling on the railroads without a ticket, and the companies had a detective employed to discov- er the offenders. The detective trav- elled up and down for some days ithout discovering the culprit. At last two men got into his car who began talking in a whisper, and one gave the other a coin, and they alighted at the next station; so the detective, thinking he had got his clue, fcllowed the man who had given the coin, and said he understood they had been talking about travelling without a ticket, and as he (the de- Ww po! tective) was a very poor man, he should be glad to know how they managed. The other eyed him suspiciously, and then said, “If you make it worth my while, 1 think 1 can tell you.” The detective then offered him fifty cents, but that he refused. “Seventy- five cents?” “No.” “Will you take a dollar?” That offer was accepted, and the money paid. Then the man said, “Do you really want to know what I do when I wish to travel hout t et? Well, then, I'll tell
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